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Fall 2007

Law School Breaks Ground for New Facility and Construction Update

Neuroimaging and the "Complexity" of Capital Punishment, O. Carter Snead

Salvation and the Sopranos: Redemption in New Jersey, M. Cathleen Kaveny

Law School Celebrates Father Mike McCafferty's Life and Legacy

Loan Repayment Assistance Takes a Big Step Forward

Complete Fall 2007 Issue - includes faculty notes, administration and staff notes, library news, student notes, alumni notes and much more.

Spring 2007

Pursuing Justice in South America, Ed Fillenwarth, ’63 J.D.

Report from Guantánamo, Bob Weaver, ’75 J.D.

To Save the Children, John Crowley, ’92 J.D.

Remembering Nel, Ray Marvar, ’79 J.D.

Complete Spring 2007 Issue - includes faculty notes, administration and staff notes, library news, student notes, alumni notes and much more.

Fall 2006

Building for the New Millennium: A Progress Report

National Parks, Ghanian Style
Prof. John Nagle reports on environmental efforts undertaken in Ghana.

“Amazing Grace”
When the Hispanic Law Students Association awarded Prof. Jimmy Gurulé its Graciela Olivarez Award, he chose to honor the award’s namesake in his acceptance speech.

Complete Fall 2007 Issue - includes faculty notes, administration and staff notes, library news, student notes, alumni notes and much more.

Spring 2006

Learning What It Means To Be a Different Kind of Lawyer by Robert Jones, Director, Legal Aid Clinic

Tennis and Top Bottons Remembering William H. Rehnquist by Richard W. Garnett, Lilly Endowment Associate Professor of Law

The Far Reach of the Dome's Shadow: Discovery in Asia by Joseph Bauer, Professor of Law

The Law Library: A Twenty-Year Odyssey by Roger Jacobs, Professor of Law

People, Books, Quiet Action: The Emblems of a Friend by Walter F. Pratt, Professor of Law

Center for Civil and Human Rights: Continuing a Tradition by Sean O'Brien, Assistant Director, Center for Civil and Human Rights

Complete Spring 2006 Issue - includes faculty notes, administration and staff notes, library news, student notes, alumni notes and much more.

Fall 2005

$21 Million Dollar Gift from Alumnus Frank Eck

Voir Dire: A Conversation with Professor G. Robert Blakey

Corporate Inversions and the Definition of an "American" Corporation by Professor Michael Kirsch excerpts his Virginia Tax Review article.

Complete Fall 2005 Issue - includes faculty notes, administration and staff notes, library news, student notes, alumni notes and much more.

Spring 2005

The Notre Dame London Law Centre: A Reexamined Profession

"Chilé: From Oppression to Freedom" by Jeff Hall, '06 J.D.

"Reflections on Making a Difference" by Ana Perez-Arrieta, '05 J.D.

"Reminiscence" Bob Rodes reflects on the past forty-nine years at the law school.

The Notre Dame Law Review Celebrates its 80th Anniversary

Complete Spring 2005 Issue - includes faculty notes, administration and staff notes, library news, student notes, alumni notes and much more.

Fall 2004

"Reinstating the Rule of Law" This past May, Notre Dame Professor of Law Jimmy Gurulé was a member of a group of international jurists and legal scholars invited to The Hague to provide advice and guidance to members of the Iraqi Special Tribunal, the governing body charged with bringing Saddam Hussein to justice.

"Supporting the Cause of Justice" As preparations were made to undertake the arduous and complex task of prosecuting war criminals after Sierra Leone’s savage 10-year civil war, Notre Dame Law Professor Jim Seckinger and a team of trial advocacy experts were on hand to conduct training that would, he hoped, further the cause of justice in this war-torn nation.

"Bridge to the Past: Kenneth Konop '29, '31 J.D."

"Retired Law School Professor Charles F. Crutchfield Dies"

Complete Fall 2004 Issue - includes faculty notes, administration and staff notes, library news, student notes, alumni notes and much more.

Spring 2004

"Bangladesh Journal" by Teresa Godwin Phelps, Professor of Law

"Catholic and American Using Catholic Social Teaching for a Critical Look at American Law and Culture" by Vincent D. Rougeau, Associate Professor of Law

"The History of Pollution" by John Copeland Nagle, Professor of Law

"Hope on Howard Street" by Rebecca Houghton, Supervising Attorney, Legal Aid Clinic and Clinic Fellow

"Is Marriage the Government's Business?" The Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy sponsored “Symposium on Marriage."

Lord Goff - This Year's Clynes Visiting Chair

Tribute to Barbara Link

Complete Spring 2004 Issue - includes faculty notes, administration and staff notes, library news, student notes, alumni notes and much more.

Fall 2003

"Shattered Voices" by Teresa Godwin Phelps, Professor of Law "The Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis and the Spirit of Canon Law" by Reverend John J. Coughlin, O.F.M., Professor of Law "Notre Dame Law School Faculty Focus Tex Dutile" by Mary Hendriksen

Spring 2003

"Reaching Beyond Borders Encounter with Migrants Reinforces Importance of Justice" by Barbara Szweda., Associate Professional Specialist Notre Dame Legal Aid Clinic

"Subsidiarity as a Structural Principle of International Human Rights Law" by Paolo G. Carozza, Associate Professor of Law

"Agent Orange Heads to the Supreme Court" by Jay Tidmarsh, Professor of Law

"A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis" Reviewed for American magazine by Donald P. Kommers, Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political Science and a concurrent professor of law. He is also a fellow in the Nanovic Institute for European Studies.

Clynes Endowment Brings Chief Justice Rehnquist to Campus

Alumni Funded Fellowships

Summer 2002

"Enron, Accounting and Lawyers" by Matthew J. Barrett '82, '85 J.D., Professor of Law

Fall/Winter 2001 - After September 11: Challenges, Choices

"Combating Terrorism through Law Enforcement: Crime-Fighting Adapts to the New War on Terrorism" by Cathy Pieronek '84, '95 J.D., Director of Law School Relations

"The War and Human Rights" by Juan E. Méndez, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Civil and Human Rights

"Civil Remedies for Victims of Terrorist Attacts" by William P. Hoye '01 LL.M., Associate Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Concurrent Associate Professor of Law

"Practicing Immigration Law on September 11" by Barbara Szweda, Associate Professional Specialist, Notre Dame Legal Aid Clinic

Justice Antonin Scalia, 2001 Clynes Visiting Professor in Judicial Ethics

Student Service Projects

Alumni-funded Summer Service - An Opportunity to Serve, An Opportunity to Learn

Summer 2001 Edition - Bridging Our Past and Our Future

"Bridging Our Past and Our Future" by Dean Patricia A. O'Hara '74J.D.

"The Search for Space" by Associate Dean Roger F. Jacobs

The New Law School Building